Fool me once ...

April FIRST?! which I didn't even realize until one of the DevGeeks here sent around Google's "Custom Time" thingy ...I just think they should've made a page that offered to let you TAKE BACK any e-mail you regret sending [before the recipient gets it]. *sigh* I shoulda known this was too good to be true! But then I tend to believe anything Google tells me [unless they direct me to ANY Wikipedia page].

I'm not really blonde. Just date-challenged [to which frogprofbro will happily attest, the big SNOT].

Not much going on [quoi de neuf?!] ... the Job is going well, although I'm about 53 e-mails behind. And no, I don't mean fun e-mails ... I'm talking about the ones from The New England Journal of Medicine, or The Journal of the American Medical Association, or the other myriad medical/health safety journals or newsletters I get on a weekly basis. And I'm supposed to peruse ALL of them to find articles relevant/germane/whatev to our site. (No, I'm not going to inflict that on you. You would leave me forever.) Out of the 53 e-mails, there may be 20 that have anything interesting in them ... but I still have to read EACH ONE in its entirety.

Bleh.

Planning my trip to The Mountain for my THIRTIETH high school reunion ... NOT that I'm anywhere near 30, mind you [actually, ACHA and I are 23 for the sixth time this year], but somehow I was graduated from The Academy in 1978. Chronologically impossible, I know, but still. The airfare alone is going to cost me $350; then there's car rental on top of that, PLUS the cost of the reunion weekend itself, PLUS having to stay at not-the-guest-house-I wanted-but-some-cheesy-motel-down-the-road. Yeesh. For a 4-day weekend, this is going to cost MORE than my California trip last year, I think! But -- if any of them shows up -- it'll be good to see all those people who tormented me back in the day... Last reunion I attended [I think it was the 15th], I was the only member of SA '78, so I had to have my "class photo" [me and the class banner] taken with the StA '78 gang. Which was actually okay, since I'd also attended StA's before SA, and thus knew most of the alumni from there as well.

Have [re-]discovered Alibris, and three weeks ago took delivery of a box of EIGHTEEN BOOKS, which -- since I'd ordered SO DAMN MANY -- cost me nothing in shipping. And the entire box came in under $50!! (A lot of the books were $1 apiece.) But even so, I still went to Bookstop and bought another eight [new] books as well! I am a bookslut. And I sure don't have anywhere to put them once I get them read ... Many of them will end up at the Paperback Traders shop [or whatever it's called]; I refuse to sell any more books to Half-Price because they completely rip you off. I'm fine with buying books there, but if I have any I want to get rid of [never very likely -- I re-read all the time], I either give them to friends, donate them to the library, or find ANOTHER store at which to exchange them.

Also have made good use of Coldwater Creek's outlet sale, and today received a box with 3 sweaters and 3 blouses in it. (Never mind that the temperature in Austin is close to 80 with 80% humidity!!) I think I have Texas' largest collection of sweaters, bar none. (And even better, I think I'm starting to have hot flashes. Either that or the office thermostat is really off.)

Hope I've proved to myself that I really CAN make links -- unless you're a glutton for punishment, don't bother with the medical links! (Although NEJM does have a fascinating, if frequently disturbing/gross/oogy Image Challenge every week. I surprise myself with how often I get the right answer.) (I've had an extremely checkered career path.) Happy April Fool's Day, everybody!